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Help Needed... Lego 777 Tail Design

Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44
Posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 8710 times:

For those of you who recognise my username, you will know I build lego models.

I have recently completed a 7773ER model and am interested in making up afew tail stickers to print out and stick on to the tail. I have made a simple tail template for anybody to play around with and make their own tail scheme.

If there are any guys (or girls) out there who is good with photoshop, MS paint, etc etc, I would very much like to make some PIA tails for the model as PIA have recently started using new tail designs. Would this be possible? Are there any computer generated PIA tail schemes lying around the internet?

The tail template...

One of my favourite PIA tails I would like...

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Photo © Prince Aviation Images

Another PIA tail scheme...

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Photo © Royal S King

Any help what so ever would be appreciated and any tail shemes of your own would be welcomed.

I believe you just download the tail template provided and make up your own scheme Smile

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Jogales From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 437 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 8700 times:

I'd suggest using a photo from Matt Cawby (with permission of course)
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=400405355&size=o
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=376030708&size=o
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=317530837&size=o

be sure to show us a pic or two!

Josh

Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44
Reply 2, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 8665 times:

Quoting Jogales (Reply 1):

Those are great pictures, however I have no idea how to refit them into my template.

I was thinking, a flight simulator model may have a computer generated tail scheme which I could copy. I must research more in to that.

Thanks for your help Smile

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ArniePie From Belgium, joined Aug 2005, 1265 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 8647 times:

Go for Melvin rafi's model, they are the best and most accurate, just get the paintkit on avsim.

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Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44
Reply 4, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 8616 times:

Well I did manage to find a tail scheme from one of the many PIA 777 textures available to download for flightsimulator...

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m206/chip16587/P1000818.jpg

I just have to find the other two tails now! Blah!

Quoting ArniePie (Reply 3):
Go for Melvin rafi's model,

I think I tried downloading one of his textures and I couldn't open any of the texture files.

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GAIsweetGAI From Norway, joined Jul 2006, 883 posts, RR: 7
Reply 5, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 8611 times:

Legoguy, IMO you should make your models bigger so you can build the airfoils (wings, rudder etc.) in the shape of an actual airfoil.
Smile

"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44
Reply 6, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 8554 times:

Quoting GAIsweetGAI (Reply 5):

I can't make them any bigger as I don't have that many lego bricks and I also have no room to store the actual model.

I can't find any more FS PIA tails Sad

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Concord977 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1261 posts, RR: 29
Reply 7, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 8552 times:

I can take any PIA tail photo and fit it within your template shown at the top. However, the photos on a.net are usually about 1024x768 in size, which means they are quite jagged when enlarged that much.

If you don't mind them being quite jagged, I can do a few for you.

Curt

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Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44
Reply 8, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 8548 times:

Quoting Concord977 (Reply 7):

Hey, at this stage anything would do Smile

Perhaps you could use the photos from Matt Cowby's page from reply 1

I already found the PIA tail scheme 'Thar - Colours of the Desert' so no need to do that. I have been told that the template doesn't work properly so if you got the rough shape I'd be happy enough Smile

I'd be happy to print off any other random tail schemes made up.

Any help is appreciated Big grin

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Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44
Reply 9, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 8205 times:

Sorry to dig up an old thread. I was wondering if anybody could find the tail imagine of one of the PIA colours schemes within the textures files of a flight sim 777. Unfortunately for some reason I can only open the odd image within the texture files. Thus can only find one image including the tail textures.

Im looking for the image the same as the one below but with the different livery. Any help would be appreciated.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m206/chip16587/PIAbluetail.jpg

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